Sticks and Stones

Yesterday I saw a clip showing Ana Navarro, one of the ladies of The View, that pack of female hyenas whose non-retractable claws are always on display, describe J.D. Vance, the Republican candidate for VP, as "Just Dumb Vance." Her colleagues and the hyena-filled audience laughed and applauded.

Here's just how dumb J.D. Vance is: A former corporate lawyer and current US Senator from Ohio, he served in the U.S. Marine Corps from 2003 to 2007 as a combat correspondent, with six months in Iraq. He then attended Ohio State University, graduating in 2009 and going on to Yale Law School, graduating in 2013. His 2016 bestselling memoir, Hillbilly Elegy, received considerable press attention and was adapted into a feature film in 2020. All of that by age 39!

A re-surfaced interview with Vance from three years ago was the trigger for Navarro's infantile insult. During it he referred to "childless cat ladies" as "miserable with their own lives so they want to make the rest of the country miserable too." He was referring specifically to Kamala Harris and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. 

Back then nobody seemed to care, but in today's PC world people flipped out, most notably childless cat ladies. Today's Wall Street Journal carries an op-ed piece by a Democrat who chastises Vance, writing, "Americans don't like to be nudged, judged, hectored or disdained." Oh really? Consider the following statements from two notable Democrats:

In 2016, a campaigning Hillary Clinton said, "You could put half of Trump's supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. They are irredeemable." 

Barack Obama in 2008, referring to people in small towns in the midwest, said: "They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy toward people who aren't like them ...... as a way to explain their frustrations." 

And just this week the Biden/Harris team has initiated their own name-calling, saying Trump and Vance are "weird." Ouch, that hurts -- just ask entertainer "Weird Al" Jankovic, whose net worth in 2024 is $25 million. Anyway, when it comes to names I'd rather be called a Childless Cat Lady than an Irredeemable Deplorable. As for Weird -- well, that's my middle name.